Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| THE Universalist general convention
| was in session at New York on the 18th.
THE Crown Princes birthday was OBJ
served by the people of Berlin on the 18th
A NATURAL gas explosion in Pittsburgh
Pa, on the 10Th, caused serious loss OF life
| and property.
THE eleventh annual meeting of the
American Humane Association began al
Rochester, N. Y. on the 18th.
Mr.. WILLIAM JOHN EVELYN (Conserva'
tive), member of the British House of Com
m ons, will resign because of his inability
to agree with the government on the Irish
question.
A NEW and sensational charge is pub.
lished against General Boulanger, alleging
a war conspiracy between him and the
late Russian editor, Katkoff.
THE argument before the New York
Court of Appeals in the Sharpe case has
been postponed until the 9th instant. II
is announced that Jacob Sharpe's lawyers
will carry his case up to the Supreme
Court of the United States if the Court OF
Appeals decides against him.
AMONG the passengers for Liverpool on
the 10Th, on the steamship Germanic, was
DR.. Grant Bey, the celebrated physician
and arch9ologist of Cairo, Egypt.
IT is stated that BARLEY Campbell, the
dramatist, is recovering his sanity, and
will soon be released from the Middle
town IN. W asylum.
The Gar of Russia has been hastily
summoned to st. Petersburg. He will
leave Copenhagen in few days.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive En-.
gineers assembled in National convention
at Chicago on the 18th.
A TELEGRAM was received at the Marine
Hospital Bureau in Washington on the
18th, from Deputy Collector Spencer al
Tampa, Fla, saying that the outlook was
better, and that although there were ru.
mors of new cases they had not been con.
firmed. One death occurred on the 10Th.
Hon. w. A. STOWE, Democratic candi-
date for district judge in Omaha, Neb.,
was stricken with paralysis at late hour
on the night of the 18th, in Lincoln, and
his recovery is doubtful He had not re-
gained consciousness on the 10Th.
REV. FATHER KERNER, pastor of the
Church of our Lady of Mount Carmel, New
York, who was injured in the ruins of the
schoolhouse he was building on East
One Hundred and Fifteenth street on the
18th, died at st. Francis Hospital on the
morning of the 10Th.
SEVERE snow-storms have occurred
throughout Italy, greatly injuring crops
and animals. The storms were accom-
panied by hurricanes in some parts. A
number of houses have been unroofed at
Pisa and several persons drowned in Lake
Como.
NJ. KUKI, the Japanese Minister, who is
about to return home gave a dinner on
the night of the 10Th at the Arlington
Hotel, Washington, at which Secretaries
.Bayard, Fairchild and Lamar and several
justices of the Supreme Court were pres
emit.
AT the second days session of the Pro-
testant Episcopal congress at Louisville
KY, on the 18TH, the higher education of
women and other TOPICS were discussed.
The Russian schooner Johannes was
lowed into the port of Copenhagen, Dem
mark, on the 18th. A carpenter had MUIR
dered the captain and five of the crew,
and thrown their bodies overheard.
IT is said at the State Department at
Washington that the nature of the APP
preaching fishery conference is generally
misunderstood. The conference carries
with it no authority or power. 1t can
merely result in the negotiation of
treaty subject to approval by the Senate.
THE presidential party were received
and entertained at Montgomery, Ala, on
the Goth, and in the evening started for
Washington.
THERE was no game in the worlds base
ball championship series on the Goth, rain
at Washington causing its postponement.
The funeral of Rustem Efendi, secretary
of the Turkish Legation, took place at
Washington on the Goth.
MRS. JAMES A. GARFIELD and her
daughter, Miss Mollie, who were passen-
gers on the steamer Arizona from New
York, arrived at Liverpool on the Goth.
A DISPATCH Of the Goth announced the
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well-known actor.
ITALY's prospects in her Abyssinian
campaign are reported to be much more
encouraging.
A TAMPA (Fla.) special of the Goth re-
ported fourteen cases Of yellow fever, in
Guiding two colored, and three deaths.
RIGHT HON. ALEXANDER j. B. BEREs-
FORD HOPE, a member of the British Par
Lament, died on the Goth.
RUSSIA contemplates reduction of i'm
port duties on goods from several coun-
tries, but not on any from Germany.
ENGLISH papers continue to deplore
Chamberlain's appointment as a British
fisheries dispute commissioner.
THE most disastrous confagration that
ever visited Marinette, Wis, took place
on the night of the 10th. Two entire
blocks in the heart of the city, containing
Der of dwellings, were burned. The total
loss is $2OO,OO0
The Pesther Lloyd, in an inspired arti-
Gle, expresses the readiness of Austria
to enter into an alliance with England.
CORRESPONDENCE which passed between
the Government and its officers in Alaska
seizures Of British vessels is
now made public.
THE board of managers of the New York
Produce Exchange on the Goth suspended
about 125 members for non-payment of
their annual dues, and a still larger num-
Der for failing to pay the gratuity fund
THE steamer Upupa collided with and
sunk the German bark Planteur off Beachy
Head, England, on the 10Th. Eleven per-
sons were drowned and the captain of the
bark has since died. Only two of the crew
of the bark survived.
THOMAS II. DAVIS, assistant freight
agent of the New York Central railroad in
New York, who absconded, leaving a de-
ficiency of 900 in his accounts, was
caught in Canada on the 10Th, and taken
back. He pleaded guilty, and was held
for trial.
AT the agricultural convention in Wash
ing on the Doth papers were read on 1.-THE
Work and the Needs of Experiment Sta
tions." and Experiments and Investiga-
tions Demanded by the Farmers of Iowa."
SHORTLY before noon on the Goth the
fast express on the Chesapeake & Ohio
six coaches, going west, met
with an accident twelve miles below
W. Va, in which twenty-six
passengers were more or less injured.
None were killed outright.
ADvICEs from Melbourne say the
steamer CheYiot has been wrecked at